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We take our quantitative and qualitative teams and organize the data into all these fancy graphs and stuff (I help make sure the kids get the data, not on the team that analyzes the numbers). Once we have the data sorted, pictures set up we meet and organize the teams into categories:

9: Nope, not gonna pick them. Lotsa reasons to go on the 9 list. At World's all landfills went there because that was our niche. Also teams that didn't mesh with our drive team might end up here if the conflict was deemed too much.

5: Good 3rd pick or 2nd pick if 1's and 3's are not available.

3. Good solid 2nd pick.

1. We'd love to have them but pretty sure they will not be available, but we rank them anyway because you never know.

We always no matter our rank go through the motions. It has come up more often than not that our data is a lot better than the Alliance captain and they look to us for help making the next pick. At World's we skipped one and went to our next pick because our first pick worked better with them.

We usually spend an hour or two at dinner crunching the numbers and then another 2-3 going through each team. Looking at their pictures and wrapping our mind around strategies. If Team ## picks us who would be good 3rds, etc.